“All Toyota Crowns handle decently,” I answered My buddy commented: “This car handles really well!” (You’ll find his car, and my Miata, here in our Japan Car Direct blog post about buying a good used sports car in winter…which is….well….now, guys.) We were a bit late going down the twisty back road to the station and I piled on a bit of speed. Then it clicked and I remembered recently having given a ride to the train station to a sports car friend of mine, the guy who spent his 30-year long service bonus from the company on a brand new Lotus Elise R. Normally such cars come pretty well loaded, no? But a Crown with unpowered rear doors locks and windows? What does that tell you?” “Look, you’ve got power locks and power windows on the front doors, but a manual system on the rear doors. “Huh?” My vocabulary seemed to be getting more and more shrunken as my incomprehension grew. More than once he’d been a teacher in the company’s technical college and I think that he liked teaching more than he ever realized, but I just wasn’t making any connections. No place for an airbag in it, is there? And no passenger side airbag either, right?” “A steering wheel.” I was getting more and more brilliant. Why?”Īnd then he gave me a nice little lesson: My brilliant reply was: “Huh?” A Lesson from a Professor of Car Design He looked closely at the dash, and under the dash, at the rear door inner panels, and then moved to the outside of the car where he checked especially under the wheel wells and looked for a while at the suspension. So I told you at the end of our previous post on the Best Toyota Luxury Cars to import from Japan here how one day the design team leader for my 1997 S150 series, fender mirror, Crown came over to me in the company parking lot one day and asked to look inside my car.
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